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Péter Esterházy: Seventeen swans. Baroque play with two acts

Péter Esterházy: Seventeen swans. Baroque play with two acts

‘I, Lili Csokonai have shot with this arrow at the whole world by true Roman faith and disbelief with what I have remained, on the 17th of September at dawn, in the year of 1965 on the grey lowland of Csepel.’

This is how Lili Csokonai’s book starts. Novel and biography, vision and reality. The bleak, profane calvary of an orphan girl in a sacred tone for a today’s man. A girl begins to tell her story from the mid ’80s. Our lifes.